kill

NAME

       kill - terminate a process

SYNOPSIS

       kill [ -s signal | -p ]  [ -a ] pid ...
       kill -l [ signal ]

DESCRIPTION

       kill  sends the specified signal to the specified process.
       If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is  sent.   The
       TERM  signal  will  kill processes which do not catch this
       signal.  For other processes, if may be necessary  to  use
       the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught.

       Most modern shells have a builtin kill function.

OPTIONS

       pid ...
              Specify the list of processes that kill should sig-
              nal.  Each pid can be a process id,  or  a  process
              name.

       -s     Specify  the  signal  to  send.   The signal may be
              given as a signal name or number.

       -p     Specify that kill should only print the process  id
              (pid)  of the named process, and should not send it
              a signal.

       -l     Print a list of signal names.  These are  found  in
              /usr/include/linux/signal.h

SEE ALSO

       bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)

AUTHOR

       Taken  from  BSD  4.4.   The  ability to translate process
       names to process ids was added by Salvatore Valente  <sva-
       lente@mit.edu>.